Grinnell lost a couple restaurants when I taught there a few years ago, so this is great news.

Surprisingly good Vietnamese/Thai joint in Newton, not far from Grinnell

Thrasymachus among us

Honestly, even if the movie stinks, it’s cool that Nolan is taking the swing. He’s coming off of a massive (and unlikely) success in Oppenheimer and he chose to use that opportunity to adapt the Odyssey.

He’s going to get, likely already has, gotten people to read it for the first time.

As a former hockey player: ew

*if you can

Obviously.

Stunned to learn that the line “why don’t you purify yourself in the waters of Lake Minnetonka” in the Chappelle’s Show sketch was almost verbatim in the movie

I can assure you, I do not

Who cares?

The cut to Lockjaw made it seem like PTA wanted it to be clearly Lockjaw, but before that I thought it was PTA…

Julius Caesar would call him a barbarian, no question. Pants are uncivilized

“Durus = strong” is passable as college-level translation only!

Yeah but they’re fuuuun

Yep! They have some other letters too, that English doesn’t have

From one Ritter fan to another, that’s his best (among some great albums)